Sunday 29th June - Experiments in prayer 2 - Colouring

 Last Sunday I wrote about praying 'with the breath', taken from Miranda Threlfall-Holmes' book 'The Little Book of Prayer Experiments'. 

I've been geen trying this all week, repeating a phrase or a verse in time with my breathing as a way of staying focused, connected. It's something I shall continue doing.

Another 'experiment' relates to Ang's recent post about a Scripture Journaling workshop she went to. M T-H calls it 'Colouring the Bible'.

You can create your own page to colour in, or there are plenty of free sheets to download and print, and even books of prayerful phrases to colour.

Eg www.flamecreativekids.blogspot.uk

In order to avoid copyright issues I've just quickly roughed out an example;

The idea is that as you colour in the picture, you let your mind dwell on the words, and think about the meaning of them, letting them sink into your mind. She puts it so much better in her book! Anyway, I shall give the colouring prayers a go this week and see how I get on.

Music 

Having discovered that so many suites called 'serenade' have been composed by so many composers I thought I'd explore further. Here's Elgar. I'm surprised how familiar they sound. I've obviously been listening to them for years without realising who composed whatl